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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008

So Marcus gets a job with Gateway computers, and his old office mates get him a cake to say goodbye:

Obviously, this raises a few questions.

Going by the illustration, either Marcus is a wee little man or Gateway has had so many budget cuts that they're back to using the Colossus computers from World War II. Marcus also has three legs and types with his feet. He's lucky, though, because he's been hired at Gateway's exclusive beach-front cubicle office, where each week's work is delivered via the time-tested "message-in-a-bottle" method.

OR...

The bakery lost the order and slapped something together at the last minute.

One of those two, anyway. I think I like the first explanation better, though.

Maryn M., I agree: the word "enable" should probably never be on a cake.

I like the addition of the plastic trees on either side of the cake. I guess they symbolize the fact that the poor fellow might be outdoors more often in this new job. Attention to detail -- always important! LOL!

I love how the designer had to emphasize the "Gateway" aspect. I will say that at least s/he had actually seen a computer at some time in the past: I remember seeing one cake on display at a SuperTarget that suggested that the designer had worked with computers at one time...back when Babbage Difference Engines were state of the art.

Why do I get the feeling there's a weird story about Marcus behind this cake. Maybe he was one of those guys that never did much because he said he wanted to "be outdoors" - and rather than taking a job as a park ranger or something sensible he wound up with yet another cubicle job hunched over a computer.Or maybe I'm just confusing Marcus with my ex boyfriend. :-D

He either got a promotion or they thought his work was so bad that they told him it was a promotion and shipped him to some deserted island with the WWII computer & him not knowing it was the original computer, "Marcus we need you to work on this top secret computer and we'll bring you to a tropical island retreat for it...(snicker, snicker)"!

Stick figures?? My eyes could not get over the tan---oh, its suppose to be sand. Whoa. Thank you "all adither". A beach, ah?! Now I see it. I just needed these suggestions to jump start my imagination. Too funny.

My youngest turns 21 in ten days. I am so tempted to (create a wreck) order him a cake. Surely, the cake folks behind the counters are not on to us?

I think Marcus's co-workers were extremely bitter that he had chosen to leave their company and work for Gateway so they chose to work out their bitterness in sarcastic cake form.

The drawing symbolizes someone's ultimate fantasy of Marcus eventually being eaten and utterly destroyed by his laptop, which has become giant and monstrous due to the island life that Marcus so desperately wanted. Now THAT'S irony. ;)

Let's see..The stick figure was done by Little Johnny, who bugged his cake decorator mommy to "let me try it" on take your kid to work day?Mom thought it was soooooo cute, that she promised him it would stay that way. Then she added the plastic trees and writing to give it the professional touch.It could've happened..LOL~Amy B.

I think this cake could be vastly improved by removing the terrible drawing, cleaning up the writing, and sprinkling on some crushed graham cracker to make the sand more grainy. Other than thats its not too terrible.

The thing in the corner is a colorful surfboard sticking out of the sand.

Gateway is currently laying people off! He will soon take the park ranger job, or be a naturalist on the Missouri River or something...it is, after all, within walking distance of the big cow-painted buildings.

Is it me, or is that a message that should in fact be written in the card that goes along with the cake, and not on the cake itself? Cake messages should be short and, no pun intended, sweet. Okay, pun intended.

There are so many free clipart images that could be assembled into a single image that could be used to screen a cute and unambiguously-limbed character in a beach scene on the cake... why does no one ever think of that?

That said, I have a friend who insists on doing all her family birthday cakes, and she insists on writing messages atop them with store-bought icing tubes meant for that purpose, and they always end up looking something like this...messy and weird.

I shouldn't be blogging with migraine. The sugar really gets to me! ;)

That cake is really sad ... They obviously don't care about and won't miss this guy, there's no 'we'll miss you!' or 'good luck!'. That message reads like they were all desperately wracking their brains to think of something nice to say to someone they didn't like very much.

Ugh: this whole cake is just messy, smeary, and does indeed look hastily assembled. Hope it tasted good (that's the only important thing, imo)!

I agree with Ophelia: that inscription is waaaay too long, and should have gone on the card. Maybe the decorator is Scandinavian and was going for the horre vaccui/gripping beast feeling (where all space is filled with design elements). No, there's too much negative space at the bottom, with the little pale stick man and his coal-fired laptop.

I think the big question about this cake for me is, "Why are the beach, surfboard, and palm trees fairly realistic, yet Marcus and his giant computer are seemingly see-through and apparition-like, sort of like Wonder Woman's invisible jet?"

I wonder if they were trying to suggest the guy did nothing but look at porn all day and that he should do that on the beach instead of at the office? The three legs comment had me in stitches, but maybe it had a deliberate ring of truth to it...

Did anyone notice that his clothes are on that big rock and that hes sitting there naked on that giant computer? and why did they have to say gateway on it. weird weird, but i'd love to eat that cake right about now. But I still am wondering why is he naked? Is he like the office slut or someting? Is he a guy who just likes to get naked all the time?

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